The article, “Two days without television,” was published in the Toronto Star on April 14^th, 2010. The article was written by Francine Kopun.

The article seemed odd and stuck out to me. The article is about Feature reporter, Francine Kopun for the Toronto Star shutting off the TV for two days. No TV for two days is a great way; it seems today more people watch TV now than they ever did 10 years ago.

The article made me think of how watching too much TV is an issue and big generation gaps that people see every day. When I was a kid, I was never allowed inside, sure myself and my two other siblings watched Disney movies but we were ALWAYS outside! When you have a TV and it’s constantly on, it’s hard not to be sucked into the tube. When I look at younger generations, it seems that there are more children inside as opposed to outside. No one wants to go play, they’d rather play video games, or play on their DS, or on the computer, or watch TV. I don’t know if it’s a strict parent thing, or just children have changed. But I certainly remember when I was told to get outside, I went.
Now-a-days the world is much more technological, people have to have a television for every room of the house, a computer, cell phones, ipods, everything! It doesn’t help that when a young child is watching television that there is constant advertising, which as a young child of course you want the new action figure or Barbie because that’s what the other kids have.
I think the two days without television was a great idea, and a great article. I mean if you are used to watching a favourite show on at eight pm and you shut that TV off, now what is going to fill that time slot? Without TV, there are no distractions, but at the same time there is always the computer. I mean as a college student when you know you have a deadline to write a paper it’s easy to be distracted by Facebook, or Youtube.
It surprises me how much has changed since I was little and seeing kids pass me by. Certainly things have changed and I’m sure when I was little the older generations were bickering about us.
It isn’t the fact of cutting off the TV; it’s the idea that people have to make that decision, where it should be you know instead of eating dinner with the TV on how about we just talk about our days. Without TV kids are more active, kids have imaginations let them use them.

Would it be that hard to live without TV, maybe for a week?